Judy Childers, the mother of Marine 1st Lt. Therrel Shane Childers, cries on the shoulder of her son Sam Childers after funeral services for the fallen Marine on April 1 in Powell, Wyo. Lt. Childers was leading a platoon of riflemen in an assault on an oil pumping station in southern Iraq when he was killed on March 21, becoming the first U.S. combat casualty in the war in Iraq.